{
  "id": 16005071,
  "title": "China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/china-linked-hackers-use-artex-ai-agents-in-connectwise-supply-chain",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-22T04:21:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/china-linked-hackers-use-artex-ai.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application. During the incident, Storm-0940 used ARTEX, a Go-based agentic AI penetration testing framework that was made closed-source in the wake of its abuse against South Korean financial institutions, to speed up scanning and",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}